Fixedsys
Also known as Fixedsys Excelsior
Fixedsys is a family of raster monospaced fonts. The name means fixed system, because its glyphs are monospaced, or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike fully monospaced fonts such as Courier). It is the oldest font in Microsoft Windows, and was the system font in Windows 1.0 and 2.0, where it was simply named System. For Windows 3.x, the system font was changed to a proportional sans-serif font named System, but Fixedsys remained the default font in Notepad.
Key facts
- Typeface.name
- Fixedsys
- Typeface.image
- Fixedsys font sample-withText Fixedsys.svg
- Typeface.style
- Sans-serif
- Typeface.creator
- Bitstream Inc.
- Typeface.commissioned_by
- Microsoft
- Typeface.foundry
- Microsoft
- Typeface.creationdate
- 1984
- Typeface.releasedate
- 1985
- Typeface.aka
- SysFixed
- Typeface.sample
- 220px
- Typeface.sample_fullimage
- Fixedsys Basic.png
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Article · 中文
Fixedsys，全名為"Fixed System"，是微軟（Microsoft）於1980年代所創造的一套固定字元寬度的無襯線字型。Fixedsys是Windows作業系統中最古老的字型之一，並且是Windows 1.0和2.0時代的系統字型。雖然Windows 3.0以後的系統字型改變為，但Fixedsys仍被部份程式採用為預設字型，例如記事本程式直到Windows Me的版本皆預設使用Fixedsys顯示。 Fixedsys是點陣字型，只有12點的大小，這意謂Fixedsys不像一般字型一樣可以自由縮小或放大且保持良好的可讀性（不過鋸齒狀邊緣也成為其特色）。Fixedsys並非在所有程式中皆能正常顯示。Fixedsys設計優良，筆劃結構清晰，字元不易混淆，具有出色的可讀性，加上其為等寬字體，所以也常被採用為程式碼的顯示方式。
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